Meaning not yet researched.
Ajani: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,341 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,341 in 2003; #2,146 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Ajani in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,146 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,341.
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Ajani: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,341 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 109 (2004).
In 2025, 67 US boys were named Ajani, making it the 2,146th most common boys’ name of the year, down 68 places from #2,078 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 72 boys named Ajani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,341, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 109, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Ajani, making it the 13,271st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,063 places from #12,208 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 girls named Ajani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,939, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ajani in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 2,499 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,011 babies named Ajani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 645 US boys were named Ajani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 103. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ajani ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #852 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ajooni, Ajahni and Ajanee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ajooni (378), Ajahni (130), Ajanee (116), Ajuni (97), Ajanea (12), Ajoni (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ajani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 5 | #852 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #958 | #1,693 |
| New York | 5 | #1,769 | #1,243 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,291 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,482 | #2,569 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,271 | 67 | #2,146 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,208 | 72 | #2,078 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,077 | 87 | #1,832 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,561 | 103 | #1,665 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,317 | 96 | #1,700 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,939 | 48 | #2,619 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,634 | 45 | #2,767 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,466 | 43 | #2,799 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,493 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,327 | 33 | #3,362 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,643 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,139 | 40 | #2,887 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,646 | 56 | #2,279 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,974 | 59 | #2,209 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,232 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,106 | 62 | #2,144 |
| 2009 | — | — | 82 | #1,809 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,632 | 96 | #1,620 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,709 | 101 | #1,553 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,921 | 103 | #1,479 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,148 | 88 | #1,573 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,275 | 109 | #1,343 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,692 | 102 | #1,341 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,296 | 95 | #1,384 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,741 | 76 | #1,572 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,171 | 61 | #1,783 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,248 | 37 | #2,401 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,541 | 32 | #2,600 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,827 | 39 | #2,201 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,842 | 24 | #3,021 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,536 | 20 | #3,305 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,216 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,232 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,001 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,326 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,408 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,533 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,708 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,466 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,543 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,336 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,889 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,286 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,441 | 11 | #3,606 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,027 | 15 | #2,898 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,160 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,611 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,727 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,644 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).